At 91, Madison resident Sarah Wells is doing something her ancestors couldn’t.
UW-Madison presented its 17th annual Moonshine Show Friday in celebration of Black History Month. Performances included spoken word and dances that explored the identity of being a drag queen and Black culture through the decades.
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Mary Wells, left, and her mother, Sarah Wells, collaborate on a writing exercise during a meeting of the UW-Madison Odyssey Senior pilot program. As part of her homework from a previous class, Sarah told a story about her mother, Alice Elvord, who could cook just about anything without a recipe.
Odyssey Senior students Roslyn Phillips, left, and René Robinson show their appreciation for a fellow classmate's story.
Lenora Rodin, center, shares a recollection about her childhood and how silence was a scary phenomenon in the Chicago projects during an Odyssey Senior class Monday. Silence usually meant rival gangs were gearing up for violence, or had just finished battling one another.
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In the weeks before I joined the Wisconsin State Journal in September, I was told this: Remember that a higher education institution is like their own city. It has its own character and struggles, defined by the students who learn there and the faculty who teach them.
I have seen this over and over again, and it was particularly clear when I visited UW-Platteville at Richland a week after the University of Wisconsin System ordered degree-fulfilling classes to cease because of low enrollment. During my visit, I found many of the devastated students to be emotionally invested in their campus community — and committed to saving it.
After budget cuts and consolidations, the campus' enrollment is down 90% from 2014, and UW-Platteville was ordered to shutter the campus.
With record enrollment contributing to the housing crunch, UW-Madison lured students out of dorms by offering incentives to live elsewhere.
Management companies are seeing some of their housing in prime areas sell out three to four weeks faster than previous years.
A new Early Learning Center that opened in 2021 at MATC's Truax campus doubled capacity, and a facility at the Goodman South campus could be next.
UW-Madison doctorate student Kirstan Gimse found the courage to go back to school a decade ago from a chemistry professor she would wait on.
After budget cuts and consolidations, the campus' enrollment is down 90% from 2014, and UW-Platteville was ordered to shutter the campus.
With record enrollment contributing to the housing crunch, UW-Madison lured students out of dorms by offering incentives to live elsewhere.
Management companies are seeing some of their housing in prime areas sell out three to four weeks faster than previous years.
A new Early Learning Center that opened in 2021 at MATC's Truax campus doubled capacity, and a facility at the Goodman South campus could be next.
UW-Madison doctorate student Kirstan Gimse found the courage to go back to school a decade ago from a chemistry professor she would wait on.
